Sustainable Packaging: Page 606

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PET labels

The Ice label is an offset-printed, 100% PP label, said, by manufacturer Smyth Companies (St. Paul, MN), to outperform poly/paper labels currently being used.

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Controls & Machine Components

Packaging web sites

Use these packaging web sites to obtain immediate information from suppliers, associations and other organizations. Many sites also allow you to generate feedback.

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Containers

Recycling programs

Return Logistics (Elmhurst, IL) offers recycling programs for industrial packagers aimed at increasing the number of steel drums that are returned to the proper recycling facilities.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New bottle packers help Modelo deal with refillables

Southern Mexican brewery installs high-speed rotary bottle packers that are now used throughout Modelo's system. Efficency soars even with returnable cases of marginal quality.

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Sustainable Packaging

Only leaders need apply (sidebar)

Director of packaging Skills for the future:

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Sustainable Packaging

'New and improved' green guides

The Federal Trade Commis-sion has updated its environmental marketing guidelines that dictate the use of common environmental claims and logos on packaging and advertising.

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Recycling

Oregon nixes expanded bottle-deposit law

Oregon voters decisively rejected a ballet initiative that would have expanded the current bottle-deposit law, which applies only to beer and carbonated beverages, to include more than 800 products, including paperboard packaging containers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Reusable temperature logger

The HOBO® Temp data logger is a cost-effective and reusable way to record temperatures of shipments of food or electronics products. The small, 1-oz device is packed into a case with product.

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Supplier news: Achievements

Free-Flow Packaging Corp.'s (Redwood City, CA) PS recycling program received one of 10 awards given by The National Recycling Coalition.

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California group to reconsider recycling

It may not be required for lawmakers, but it probably should be. The California Resource Recovery Assn. (Sacramento, CA) has planned two seminars this fall to cover recycling policy (Sacramento, Dec.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Recycled-content PET

Wellman (Shrewsbury, NJ) has received a letter of non-objection from the FDA for the use of EcoClear(TM) recycled-content PET in levels to 100% for beverage and food packaging.

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Controls & Machine Components

Packaging web sites

Next time you're cyber-hopping, browse these sites for packaging-specific information. We'll publish more as space permits. Remember, type http:// in front of each address.

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